nuclear energy

Earth February 3, 2015

US And China To Build A Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor

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According to Fortune, the US is helping China to build a molten salt nuclear reactor.  Due to a lack of funding and political will,…


Blog, Earth December 30, 2014

Raw Science’s Top 5 Sci/Tech to Follow in 2015

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THE LIST 5. ANONYMOUS MESSAGING APPS Have you heard of FireChat? It’s an anonymous messaging app from the San Francisco startup Open Garden. Users…


Earth December 25, 2014

All I Want For XMAS Is Nuclear Fusion

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The holy grail of energy production on Earth is a self-sustaining nuclear fusion reaction, the same process that creates energy within stars (the sun…


Earth, Raw Media November 6, 2014

Dr. Frank Shu: An Astrophysicist Offers An Outsider’s View on the Future of Energy

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Dr. Frank Shu is beaming. “That’s it!” he smiles broadly, extending a hand to a colleague. The excitement is palatable in the sweat-soaked tropical…


Earth, Raw Media October 8, 2014

Carbon-Neutral Coal in 10 minutes?

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Dr. Frank Shu and his team of researchers at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) have one of the largest BioChar…


Earth, Raw Media September 15, 2014

Dr. Helen Calidcott on the role of media and the global threat of nuclear technology

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      Since the 1980 Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Helen Caldicott an Australian physician and author, has dedicated her life to anti-nuclear…


Earth September 11, 2014

THORIUM MOLTEN-SALT: The Best Reactor You’ve Never Heard Of

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Molten Thorium Salts: Nuclear Power For The Future? by Donald Goldsmith   For sixty years, the use of nuclear energy generation to provide clean,…